The promised land - Playing by the rules - Garage-band science - God's heart - The genetic algorithm - Alchemists and parasites - Artificial flora, artificial fauna, artificial ecologies - Real artificial life - The strong claim - Notes and sources.
This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. Some behave like birds or ants. One such life form may turn out to be our best weapon in the war against AIDS. What these…
Journalist Steven Levy's previous books about Macintosh computers and about hackers make him the perfect insider-outsider, with the knowledge to write a detailed history of famously private Google. Granted unprecedented access, Levy appears to have insightfully interviewed every…
Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? The author, a technology reporter was granted access to the company, and in this b…
Written with full cooperation from top management at Google, this is the story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time.
Few companies in history have been as successful as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy was granted unprecedented access to the company, and in this b…